In other news from alternate worlds: Today I learned that MLK was shot with a rifle from a building across the street, rather than with a revolver from a man walking directly behind him. I also learned that I am not the only one who constantly writes "definately" when he tries to write "definitely".
Because nobody pronounces it the way it's spelled. Actually, our family pronounced it BERN-STEN. And that's they way they pronounce it in this cartoon: LINK
I read Berenstain Bears books to my kids in the '80s. And for several years, I worked in a library where I put Berenstain Bears books on the juvenile shelf in alphabetical order by authors' name. It is Berenstain now because it was Berenstain then. People remember it wrong. I do not know why.
Berenstein is how I remembered it, and how my friends and family did when I posed them the question, "Do you remember the book about the family of bears?"
SaneGoatiSwear ago
flope_de ago
In other news from alternate worlds: Today I learned that MLK was shot with a rifle from a building across the street, rather than with a revolver from a man walking directly behind him. I also learned that I am not the only one who constantly writes "definately" when he tries to write "definitely".
SaneGoatiSwear ago
Veridic ago
Because nobody pronounces it the way it's spelled. Actually, our family pronounced it BERN-STEN. And that's they way they pronounce it in this cartoon: LINK
ItsSwiftty023 ago
That just blew my mind! I always remembered it pronounced BerenstEin. Crazy stuff right there.
grandmacaesar ago
I read Berenstain Bears books to my kids in the '80s. And for several years, I worked in a library where I put Berenstain Bears books on the juvenile shelf in alphabetical order by authors' name. It is Berenstain now because it was Berenstain then. People remember it wrong. I do not know why.
alexn ago
You are just native to this alternate universe! The rest of us merged in :).
polkadotgirl ago
I'm going to x-post to /v/mandelaeffect.
Good article
FinnTheHuman ago
Berenstein is how I remembered it, and how my friends and family did when I posed them the question, "Do you remember the book about the family of bears?"
I don't know. It's curious alright.
Tinmanhunter ago
Very odd. I just had this disscussion with a retired kindergarten teacher and she swears it was spelled with an "e" as well. Very strange.